Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-04-07
NEWS SUMMARY.


uesday in Lexington, Kentucky.
1 A train of twenty cars Of bottled
beer has left Milwaukee for the Pacific
coast.
Charles w. Fish Of Iowa City has
| Nevada.
Five fine steamships are under con-
structiOn in the shlp-yards at Detroit
and vicinity.
The democrats of Winona, Mime
sofa, have nominated John A. Math-
ews for mayor.
John +. Petit, the veteran printer
of Cincinnati, died on Tuesday III his
leighty-iifth year.
The Interstate commerce commits
sioners were sworn into office at Wash
ington on Thursday.
The birthday presents received by
! Emperor William are sufficient to fill
! five furniture-yans.
Rev. DR.. McGlynn is about to lee
ture in New York on the struggle of
labor against capital.
The court house at Yorkville, Illi-
nois, was burned Friday morning, but
| the records were saved
William Smithe, premier of the prov
ince of British Columbia, died on
Wednesday at Victoria.
Samuel NJ. Turner, partner in the
! Grand Pacific hotel at Chicago, died
| Wednesday noon, aged So.
James f. Benedict has been APP
4 pointed collector of internal revenue
/ for Colorado and Wyoming.
The Burlington road reports its
gross earnings for 1886 at SIG, 72S, 4O8,
ana its net surplus at $3.50, S31.
! Senator Cullom is said to have paid
/ his fare from Washington to SPRING
! field where he arrived Sunday.
/ Gambling implements to the value
| of S25 900 we're ON Saturday burned by
/ the New York police authorities.
| The death is announced of w II.
/ Trayers. broker of New York,
! famous as a wit end a stammerer.
/ james NJ. Trotter, tire new recorder
OF deeds at Washington. is in dan
gerous condition from pneumonia.
Nine horses in stable at Mason
! CITY, Iowa. are affected with epzoot
resembling the national epidemic of
1872.
The Government tried a dynamite
gun in New York, and 1t threw conf
cal shell weighing $50 pounds over y
miles.
r.. b. IIandsford, of Carthage, III
inois. received S27 for the scalps of
nine young wolves found in his
pasture.
The Legislature Of Connecticut has
PASSED ten-honr lazy tar women and
children, the same rs that of Mass
achusCtts.
Armed men blew out the bank Of the
Wabash and Erie canal at Defiance,
Ohio, and destroyed the locks with
dynamite.
The indianapolis Base Ball club has
paid 81, 800 for the st. Louis franchise
and passed resolution against play
ing on Sunday,
The steamship Scotia. with nine hun
dred passengers, went ashore Friday
on Long Island. All the passengers
were saved
If Assistant Secretary Fairchild is
not selected, the chances are that some
Western banker viii be Secretary OF
the Treasury.
For the first time in the history OF
san Francisco. a vessel has been char
tered for a cargo of Hawaiian sugar
for New York
A collision Of Fort Wayne trains
near LeetOnia, Ohio caused the death
of Engineer Beall, Eight other per
sons were injured.
BY an explosion in the Bull colliery
at Sydney, South Wales. eighty-ivt
men were ent0mbed. Seven COrpseS
have been taken out.
, The captain of the yacht Damtles'
attributes his defeat in the recent rac'
to the interference of the owner, Mr.
{ Colt, who was on board.
James Kearney, q New York attor
ney, Is missing, and SO is about SS0,OO'
in cash belonging TO the firm witt
) which he was connected.
Senator ColQuit, of Georgia, is still
speaking in Michigan in behalf of tn,
proposed prohibtory amendment to thu
constitution of that state.
Emperor William received ,6lS con
gratulatory dispatches on his recen
b birthday. Sixty of the number were
sent ircm the United States.
Mrs. Fred Nelson, a sister OF Fred
erick Gebhard has been granted
divorce at Newport. Rhode Island, ant
the custody of three children.
The late Eliza Weathersby Goodwin
bequeathed 5000 to her mother il
London and the remainder of her es-
tate to her husband, Nat. c. Goodwin
The grand jury at Chicago has re
turned indictments against Commits
sioner y. j. Wren, and X-Commis
sioners j. +. Van Pelt and Adam
OchS.
. In the IIaddock murder trial a
Sioux City, Wednesday, a man name,
Koschnsh testified that he saw JOIN
Arensiorf shoot the clergyman III thu
, head.
c. NJ. Henderson, shoe manufac
urer of Chicago, has accepted an ole
OF SIS from the citizens of Dixon
, Illinois, to locate his factory at tina
place.
The state Of California has obtaine,
! Judgment against two former harbol
commissioners for 100000 misappro
priated 10y the secretary OF the com
mission.
At Beatrice. Nebraska, Friday, Jack
{ son Marion was hanged for the murde
of John Cameron fifteen years ago
The sheriff found Marion in aakausa
Jail in 1883.
President Fitzgerald of the Irisl
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